Meet the Ronda Lab

Principal Investigator

Carlotta Ronda

PI, Innovative Genomics Institute

Google Scholar

cronda@berkeley.edu

Ph.D., System Biology, Technical University of Denmark (2015)

Eng.M.Sc., Medical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (2012)

B.Sc., Molecular Biology, Padua University (2008)

Postdocs

Bingliang Xie

Ph.D., Microbiology , Chinese Academy of Sciences (2023)

Bingliangxie@berkeley.edu

Patricia Santana

Ph.D., Immunology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

pattsantana@berkeley.edu

Lab Technicians

Zhixiang Yao

MS, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (2024)

BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Technion (China) (2022)

zy154@berkeley.edu

Daria Fedorova

MS, Synthetic Biology, University of Paris (2023)

BS, Synthetic Biology, University of Paris (2021)

daria.fedorova@berkeley.edu

Undergraduates

Natalee Isabella Guerra

Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley (2024)

natguerra@berkeley.edu

Bradley Duy Vu

Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley (2025)

bradleyvu@berkeley.edu

Daniel Wolf Shneider

Biology and Art History, Columbia University (2026)

dws2137@columbia.edu

Elliot En-jia Chang

Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley (2026)

elliot_c@berkeley.edu

Ryan Sean Wu

Bioengineering, UC Berkeley (2026)

rwu501@berkeley.edu

Deepesh Aggarwal

Molecular Cellular biology and Neuroscience, UC Berkeley (2026)

adeep5300@berkeley.edu

Lab Manager

Arash Naziripour

anaziripour@berkeley.edu